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It is a kind of cult really. Along with the rise of modern editors which somehow craps out at relatively large files. So small files are sold as well organized, modular, logically arranged codebase. You see these lot of adjectives to support short files. None of them seem to be obviously true to me.

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Generally speaking those 10k lines files are shit code, regardless of context

Generally speaking it's only Enterprise(tm) code that has miniscule (not small, miniscule) files with shit code

As long as it's good code, no one cares. If you aren't working on Enterprise(tm) code odds are every bad code you'll look at has way too many lines in the abstraction unit that is being used

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